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Rsurrogate (version 3.2)

delta.s.surv.estimate: Calculates robust residual treatment effect accounting for surrogate marker information measured at a specified time and primary outcome information up to that specified time

Description

This function calculates the robust estimate of the residual treatment effect accounting for surrogate marker information measured at \(t_0\) and primary outcome information up to \(t_0\) i.e. the hypothetical treatment effect if both the surrogate marker distribution at \(t_0\) and survival up to \(t_0\) in the treatment group look like the surrogate marker distribution and survival up to \(t_0\) in the control group. Ideally this function is only used as a helper function and is not directly called.

Usage

delta.s.surv.estimate(xone, xzero, deltaone, deltazero, sone, szero, t, 
weight.perturb = NULL, landmark, extrapolate = FALSE, transform = FALSE,
approx = T, warn.te = FALSE, warn.support = FALSE)

Value

\(\hat{\Delta}_S(t,t_0)\), the robust residual treatment effect estimate accounting for surrogate marker information measured at \(t_0\) and primary outcome information up to \(t_0\).

Arguments

xone

numeric vector, the observed event times in the treatment group, X = min(T,C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

xzero

numeric vector, the observed event times in the control group, X = min(T,C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

deltaone

numeric vector, the event indicators for the treatment group, D = I(T<C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

deltazero

numeric vector, the event indicators for the control group, D = I(T<C) where T is the time of the primary outcome and C is the censoring time.

sone

numeric vector; surrogate marker measurement at \(t_0\) for treated observations, assumed to be continuous. If \(X_{1i}<t_0\), then the surrogate marker measurement should be NA.

szero

numeric vector; surrogate marker measurement at \(t_0\) for control observations, assumed to be continuous. If \(X_{1i}<t_0\), then the surrogate marker measurement should be NA.

t

the time of interest.

weight.perturb

weights used for perturbation resampling.

landmark

the landmark time \(t_0\) or time of surrogate marker measurement.

extrapolate

TRUE or FALSE; indicates whether the user wants to use extrapolation.

transform

TRUE or FALSE; indicates whether the user wants to use a transformation for the surrogate marker.

approx

TRUE or FALSE indicating whether an approximation should be used when calculating the probability of censoring; most relevant in settings where the survival time of interest for the primary outcome is greater than the last observed event but before the last censored case, default is TRUE.

warn.te

value passed from R.s.estimate function to control warnings; user does not need to specify.

warn.support

value passed from R.s.estimate function to control warnings; user does not need to specify.

Author

Layla Parast

Details

Details are included in the documentation for R.s.surv.estimate.

References

Parast, L., Cai, T., & Tian, L. (2017). Evaluating surrogate marker information using censored data. Statistics in Medicine, 36(11), 1767-1782.

Examples

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data(d_example_surv)
names(d_example_surv)





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